Besides, the people who stand to lose the most is big businesses, so when all those people cancel their TOO expensive internet service, all the online business will take BIG hit, but maybe this is the Capitalist's intent since the beginning, kill the Information Age & online businesses all together? I smell one very large rat here!

Has anyone heard of the New Economy?Edited by _GTech - 12/25/10 at 3:11am

Besides, the people who stand to lose the most is big businesses, so when all those people cancel their TOO expensive internet service,

I always kind of snicker when people say this. I mean...okay, you go first. Seriously...does anyone here, gearheads who almost to a person spends more time on the internet than is probably "healthy", really think they woll ever cancel their internet service, even if we think we are being treated unfairly? Or...or...or maybe we can just get on our favorite web forum and complain about how unfair it is instead...?!?

Uh what? The only reason these things come to be is because of a lack of the free market and capitalism. Regulations? That's a socialistic idea were the government comes in and tells business what it has to do (supposedly in "everyone's" best interest). The great irony is that business use this to their advantage. Want a monopoly on an industry? Lobby congress to pass regulations on it that include things like massive licensing fees, taxes, inspections, etc. and other various artificial barriers that prevent people from entering you industry after you've become well established and make profits. Of course you do this after you've made enough money to cover those things or make it so they don't effect you. Then, you don't have to worry about being responsive to demand either because if the resource you provide is vital enough to the consumer and they no longer have another reasonable alternative then up to a certain extent they will suffer along both financially and in quality of the resource provided.

It may not be a perfect system but when people start messing around with it they tend to make it worse.

You only need Â£500 and a lot of free time to start your own ISP over here.

Could they still apply this filter if you were browsing through an encrypted VPN? I really doubt it. I'd teach everyone i know how to use a VPN.

Why bother? They're bringing in Â£830 million to make our connection in the UK faster than Korea by 2015, so not only will it be standard to have fibrewire, but prices will come way down because there's not many better choices at the moment.